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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “My goal then was to make a conversation and to start making…”

Featuring: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democratic | U.S. House, New York, District 14

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AOC in Conversation with David Axelrod

Published | Video Starts at 31:23

But it's because I, I knew where I wanted our politics and our country to be 10 years on. I wanted and I wanted. And My goal then was to make a conversation and to start making moves so that guaranteed health care and a litany of other things would become mainstream center positions within 10 years. That was my goal, that everything that was derided as radical, crazy, whatever, would then become popularly supported by the majority of Americans in 10 years. (31:23–31:42)

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Asserts her goal to make guaranteed health care a mainstream position within 10 years.

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